It was 1973 when Brigitte Bardot, a sought-after actress from the ‘50s and ‘60s, left the spotlight just before turning 40. Fifty years later, the French star is now the subject of a new photo book ...

Whether in advertising, art, or architecture, our lives are swarmed with symbols whose meanings have developed and varied over time and place. While a decorative owl presiding over the Library of ...

Dan Brown is a real living author. His book The Da Vinci Code sold more than 81 million copies. The Lost Symbol is actually the title of Dan Brown’s new novel, not a parody title invented to make fun ...

Revelation contains many symbols. Some of them are easy to understand, some are hard, and some are just paradoxical. Ironically, the paradoxical ones can be particularly easy to figure out. Here’s ...

With the release of the Vow of the Disciple raid and the Preservation mission, players in Destiny 2 have found a symbol puzzle tucked away before Acquisition (the Obelisk encounter). Solving this ...

A visual history of the swastika as a motif, excerpted from The Swastika and Symbols of Hate: Extremist Iconography Today (2019, Allworth Press) (all images courtesy Allworth Press) Steven Heller ...

CASPAR HAUSER—Jacob Wassermann—Liveright ($3). In his preface to English-speaking readers Author Wassermann explains that he is recounting a notorious incident of German history to illustrate a ...